And this is on top of everything else the GOP is doing to win this November.

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Truth be told, the email is another fine example of the pot calling the kettle black idiom.

The Chair of the Connecticut Democratic Party was writing on behalf of Governor Dannel “Dan” Malloy.

The same Governor Dannel “Dan” Malloy that pushed through the legislation that allows a candidate for governor in Connecticut to take $6.2 million in public funds for their campaign and still raise millions more through their political party and related political action committees.

In Malloy’s case, not only has he cashed the $6.2 million taxpayer-funded check, but he has raised more than $3.5 million into the Democratic State Central Committee from state contractors, lobbyists, and individuals that have benefited financially from Malloy’s corporate welfare programs.

And that doesn’t even count the Democratic Super-PAC called Connecticut Forward, an entity that has already dumped more than $3.5 million into campaign 2014 to support Malloy and oppose Foley.

And just who are the people and organizations that are pouring money into the Malloy campaign operation?

Readers won’t be surprised to learn that one of the biggest donors to Malloy’s campaign extravaganza is the corporate education reform industry.

According to the last set of federal and state campaign finance reports, Governor Malloy, the champion of the corporate education reform industry and the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective bargaining for teachers working in the poorest schools has received well over a quarter of a million dollars from leaders and political action committees associated with the national education reform and privatization effort.

You read that right…Malloy’s political campaign has benefited from more than $250,000 in campaign contributions from the corporate education reform industry.

For example, in Connecticut, the leading force behind Malloy’s education reform initiative is ConnCAN.

ConnCAN is the charter school advocacy group that helped make the lobbying campaign in support of Malloy’s education reform bill the most expensive in state history.

ConnCAN’s Board of Directors and their immediate family members have donated more than $100,000 to Malloy’s campaign.

In addition, donors to the Democratic State Central Committee and political action committees supporting Malloy’s re-election bid include the anti-teacher Democrats for Education Reform, one of the nation’s leading corporate education reformers, billionaire Eli Broad, and Connecticut billionaire and education reform-funder, Steven Mandel.

Sadly, the Chairperson of the Connecticut Democratic Party fails to explain to the Democratic Party’s rank and file that their $5 contribution to confront the GOP Super-PAC will be deposited into the same account that is awash in millions of dollars that are being dumped into the Malloy campaign by the corporate elite that are so eager to see Malloy in office for another four years.

And that whore, Danny, was in NYC trolling for contributions yesterday. In PAY-TO-PLAY Connecticut…what did he give up??
A sheckel here, a kopeck there… it is all in the name of democracy, at least as Dan interprets it.
Danny Malloy.
A whore for campaign funds.
It’s who he is. It’s what he is…

msavage

This sentence just makes me sad. The thought of some earnest pensioner, a Democrat all his life, donating his $5 because he believes the party still represents the values he has supported all his life…

“Sadly, the Chairperson of the Connecticut Democratic Party fails to
explain to the Democratic Party’s rank and file that their $5
contribution to confront the GOP Super-PAC will be deposited into the
same account that is awash in millions of dollars that are being dumped
into the Malloy campaign by the corporate elite that are so eager to see
Malloy in office for another four years.”

guest

NP sez HI

msavage

Who, what?

buygoldandprosper

Tax and Spend Danny, left behind a stink in Stamford. He is well on his way for an encore in Hartford!
I remember when Danny set this whole thing up and allowed it to cave in on itself. Re: WPCA
“The increase raises the average customer bill from $448.40 to $464.10 annually, and is the latest in a series of rate hikes that have raised rates 36.3 percent since 2009.”
Danny Malloy lacks the skills needed to govern. He proved that in Stamford for fourteen years and continues to show it state wide.
Danny Malloy. A slimy politician. That is who he is. That is what he is.

buygoldandprosper

Danny Malloy was in NYC trolling for campaign cash this week and is headed to California to whore himself out for Golden State dollars…who is taking care of business in Hartford?